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" No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 158
by Edmund Burke - 1815
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Very Special Agents: The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law ...

Jim Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 412 pages
...underboss Carl Civella, after his arrest by the author. New Ammunition for the Government Gun No passion so robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke The early and mid-1990s saw many Americans terrified by the bombings of New York City's...
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L'infini

Université de Bordeaux III. Groupe d'études et de recherches britanniques - English literature - 2002 - 324 pages
...Cette idée du sublime est liée avec celle de terreur, la terreur que peut inspirer la perception : "Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling,...
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The Vehement Passions

Philip Fisher - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 279 pages
...perturbations, diseases, and merely negative disturbances of the mind and body. "No passion," Burke noted, "so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."14 When fear is taken to be typical of the passions or the template for all other passions, then...
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The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother

Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 pages
...characters of Gothic fiction.] c. From An Enquiry, Part Two, Section II, 57. No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimension or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as...
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The Wunder War: Man-Kzin Wars X

Hal Colebatch, Larry Niven - Fiction - 2003 - 261 pages
...something else called the Defense Committee. Peter Brennan had us set up a Friendship Committee. Chapter 4 "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." —Edmund Burke. I found Dimity Carmody at the Lindenbaum Kafe, sitting at her usual table between...
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"Homer des Nordens" und "Mutter der Romantik": James ..., Volumes 1-2

Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 2003 - 612 pages
...Vielzahl sublimer Patterns, die Burke in seiner Enquiry erwähnt. Zunächst der Terror (section II), denn "[n]o passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning".319 Er erscheint daher als "ruling principle of the sublime".320 Dies trifft auch auf "Ossians...
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1000 Pocket Positives

Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 180 pages
...ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back! Erica Jong 398. No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke 399. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful...
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II

Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...in its highest degree; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect. SECTION II TERROR No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as...
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Gassen und Landschaften: Heimito von Doderers "Dämonen" vom Zentrum und vom ...

Gerald Sommer - 2004 - 536 pages
...dem die Seele wie paralysiert erscheint, und er sieht in der Furcht eine analoge Gefühlsbewegung: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning äs fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual...
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The American Heritage College Thesaurus

Reference - 2004 - 932 pages
...hroadly to the capacities for thought, perception, memory, and decision: "No passion so effectually rohs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear" (Edmund Burkel. Intellect stresses knowing, thinking, and understanding: "Opinion is ultimately determined...
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